The silver lining here, i think, is that this seems like they put a ton of resources and activated a lot of assets for this. With its failure, I wonder how long it’ll be before the US and Israel can try such a thing again

I love how every few years it’s like “the German army fucking loves the nazis so much if they could get any attempt to coup the government and restore the Hollenzelerns at best and the nazis at worst they would do it” and then we move on like that isn’t a terrifying thing to be rearming rn

I don’t think a lot of sex positive people argue “oh just do whatever don’t worry about it.” I think i hear more about safety, security and support within the bdsm community than from outside of it. Imo sexual curiosity is not degeneracy or deviancy, but honesty. Those dangerous things you mention are taken seriously, or at least most of us try to. Power dynamics, selfishness, etc. Can all exist in normal relationships too. Hell, even “kinky” (per se) sex can exist outside bdsm and it’s communities. I’m not going to say everyone has these urges, but many people do. Bdsm isn’t about encouraging people to do these things against their will, or force this lifestyle in any degree upon people. It’s being honest about what we want and what we enjoy and figuring out how to engage with it in order to be happy with each other.

If there’s abuse, it’s handled like in any non-kinky or non-sexual relationship.

Alright, well I’ll keep this comment short then. Just personally I have it as a hobby and its helped me work through a lot of stuff, and it’s something I’ll cherish for letting me make people happy. Being powerless or powerful is often the fantasy, and I find that it’s actually helped make happier relationships when properly explored.

A better reference point for your argument would probably be pornography. As much as I’ve worked there, it’s insanely disgusting and exploitative in many ways, not to mention obviously objectifying. I do think there maybe should be room for exploring sexuality and it shouldn’t be forced to be a taboo, but pornography in general is one of the sharpest point of capitalist decay and “horribleness” for lack of a better word. So that’s better to use than BDSM.

Lastly, my general view on the topic is very similar to Dan Olsen’s discussion [unfortunately a liberal] in his 50 shades of Grey series.

Edit: although…idk, I’m trying to not be angry here. It’s just as someone who went through genuine abuse, having the thing that gave me a lot of comfort in my relationships afterwards be the thing being called “abuse” by anyone kinda incenses me. But I’ll try to understand where people are coming from

Prostitution yes, but I’m…politely, I will say I’m unsure how you could classify bdsm as “rape and abuse.” What even is bdsm in this context? If I wear some fuzzy handcuffs, am I being raped and abused? Or is it only for “extreme kinks”

How do we define comfort and safety outside of consent and safe practices?

What does pro-hedonism mean to you?

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[This won’t change anything but like…yeah, no shit Sherlock]

This is just a…idk. My brain gets very emotional when i see logically contradictory things. It’s just that whenever i see “I hope every American gets glassed,” it’s like…I get it I guess. But I remember a little while ago someone wrote a memorial to the victims of the Dresden bombing, and the German government wiped it away. And when it got posted here it was a lot of people basically saying the bombing was unnecessary and that the German government was wrong for removing it.

So my brain looks at those two statements and it kinda just fries a little. And i don’t want to get angry or anything, and I always feel like I have to be in this little box of outward hatred towards people I know. Im…I’m not built like that. I can do self hatred, I’ve been doing self hatred for basically my entire life. But I can’t look at the people in my life and say they deserve the things I read in Last Train to Hiroshima.

For the China stuff, i always go back to what Franz Fanon said. “The Cold War must be ended, for it leads nowhere. The plans for nuclearizing the world must stop, and large-scale investments and technical aid must be given to underdeveloped regions. The fate of the world depends on the answer that is given to this question.”

It’s exactly that coupling and reliance that the US has on China that has allowed China to do its BRI. The peaceful development also what makes a lot of anti-imperialist countries comfortable with exchanges with China, when before Iran and other countries were wary to work with the USSR because of their heavy handedness [see: Assasinations in Afghanistan. I love Andropov but I feel like that was one of his biggest mistakes, besides dying].

But in any case, China has had a mixed history with internationalism as it was practiced during the age of the third international. Specifically with how many leaders of the CPC became somewhat…lazy in their thinking, simply attempting to copy And paste the soviet model of army, strategy, etc. [Although many good things came out of the cooperation as well] So I think it’s not only fair, but respectable of them to have learned lessons from that

Sorry, I naturally cope with humor

replaces male president with female one

charges maduro with fire arm possession

Is trump secretly part of the woke liberal elite? Is he engaging in DEI programs abroad?

“Yeah they messed up the legal case, now they’ll never get him”

Jeffery Epstein looking up from hell:

Doesn’t that also fall under the category of try? Maybe the gulf war could be argued, but they got what they wanted out of it [and the war basically only ended by technicalities. It was more like there was a decade long “truce” where America got to starve Iraqis via sanctions]

Edit: but I do wanna say that I’m not expecting this to be the end of it. Obviously. I’m more just curious what the original plan was, because i can’t understand what said plan was.

Ehhh, what’s more normal is to actually try? Like obviously Vietnam failed, but they tried [understatement i know]. Panama was arguably a success given what the goals were. This time…the goals are simultaneously super specific but also stupid vague

kill a bunch of people, including civilians

Abducts Venezualan president

says vp is in control but you’re going to “run the place”

vp says no your not

refuses to elaborate?

leaves?

Ngl I miss when Bourgeois foreign policy makes sense. I mean I know that this obviously isn’t over, but what went wrong here? I feel like something went wrong on their end, but what would it be.

I know the SC seat was important for the USSR for vetoing a lot of bad resolutions, but the entire “permanent seat” thing is stupid. Especially considering that nowadays Britain and France can barely influence anything out of its own backyard. Britain especially. Why isn’t Japan given a permanent SC seat? Why not Iran or Turkiye or Egypt or any other African or Middle Eastern country? Shouldn’t South American interests also be accounted for? Why not give Brazil one? The entire system at that level is completely bygon, and there really needs some way to prevent one country from vetoing every resolution

In confused how this idea conflicts with what I am saying. Having your work taken and sold while you’re trying to give it to people for free is disheartening. I havent advocated for some form of system of redress, I am simply saying it hurts us to have our work be used for other people’s gain without our consent. I, like you, am saying it’s a “shitty thing to do.”

Sorry, they wouldn’t physically steal the art off the creators harddrive. They would just post the art and sell it for money despite having no involvement in the creation of said art. This was a very important distinction to make

Not op, but I feel like this comment is somewhat disingenuous.

1.You argue against points op is not explictely making. For example, op never actually says they like copyright law or that it is effective in this scenario. However you argue like op explicitly did. All op said is that they “take issue with it,” which is actually objectively in line with what you say in the last paragraph of your comment

2.You very much can take something given for free and sell it based on the ignorance of the consumer base, especially if the consumer bases don’t interact. If i write a video about the French revolution or something, a company can then just transcribe the video and put it on their website, claim it’s there’s, and make money off of it. This happens plenty already. Additionally, back when NFTs were a big thing, people would steal art and make them NFTs to sell, and basically tell artists “tough” when they were criticized for the practice.

3.I do want to point out we still have a lot of years of “to each according to their work” to get through once a socialist transformation occurs. How does one get compensation for their work if society has no ability to dictate credit? I’m obviously not saying the creator should be able to prevent ideas from being used in one way or another, but they should still be compensated for the work they do to actually make said concept.